Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- 1. Introduction: Concepts and Approach -- 2. Consumer Electronics: The United States: The Creation and Destruction of a National Industry -- 3. Consumer Electronics: Japan's Paths to Global Conquest -- 4. Mainframes and Minicomputers: The...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2 By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3 Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4 Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5 The Campbell...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Report of the Panel on the Network Systems and Communications Industry -- 3 Report of the Panel on the Medical Devices and Equipment Industry -- 4 Report of the Panel on the Aerospace Industry -- 5...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. THE ROAD TO SPINDLETOP -- 2. THE FIRST GREAT BOOM -- 3. AFTER THE BOOM -- 4. OILY WATER AND BLACK GOLD -- 5. THE RISING TIDE OF OIL -- 6. OIL IN COW COUNTRY -- 7. THE COLOSSUS OF TEXAS BOOMS -- 8. SURVIVAL AND GROWTH -- 9. TEXAS OIL GOES TO WAR -- NOTES -- 1....

There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business...

Economic skill is an essential partner to technical skill in every step of the mining process. This book will help effectively direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of...

1. Water, Woods, and Winter: A Special Sense of Place2. Heaving Up Jonah: The Travail of Travel3. Settling In: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels4. A Lapful of Apples: Foodways in the Far North5. Keeping House: All the Work of the Family6. Tasks at Hand: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys...

Cover -- Contents -- 1 The Race for Global Innovation Advantage -- 2 Explaining U.S. Economic Decline -- 3 Learning from the Wrong Master: Lessons from U.K. Industrial Decline -- 4 Why Do So Many Refuse to See U.S. Structural Economic Decline? -- 5 What Are Innovation and Innovation Policy and...